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ASIC Intern at NVIDIA
No Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2013 – Reviewed May 9, 2013
Interview Details – 1 Interview - 1 question on state machines, 1 river crossing riddle, 1 question on logic design
Interview Question – Nothing really. Answer Question
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Senior Systems Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in San Jose, CA May 2012 – Reviewed May 7, 2013
Interview Details – It is tedious process. 7 rounds interviews in one day.
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ASIC Design Intern at NVIDIA
No Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA Oct 2012 – Reviewed May 3, 2013
Interview Details – questions on timing, CDC, C++, stuff from projects
Interview Question – Trick question on FIFOs. Answer Question
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Campaign Manager at NVIDIA
No Offer – Reviewed May 2, 2013
Interview Details –
1st round - screen by hiring manager
2nd round - 4 people including recruiter
Final round with vp and another individual
Standard questions about my background and why I want to work there and what I can bring to the table. Quizzed me about the gaming industry and my knowledge of the company's products as the job required gaming and industry knowledge.
Thought the interview went well first 2 rounds. Round 2, I was a little uncertain about the outcome as I had mixed feelings about the entire interview process and felt I only made connection with only 2 out of the 4 people who interviewed me in the second round.
However, they called me back for the last round, so I thought, I guess it went ok. When I reached the last round, the vp seemed highly disinterested, asked me which role I was interviewing for (as there were several and that totally threw me off as he mentioned the titles of the roles that were open really quickly and asked me which one it was). After that, he directly told me I wasn't a good fit, and that's within 5 minutes of shaking hands with him. I was a little shaken by that comment, my jaw probably dropped, and I knew it was pointless to continue the interrogation.
Not sure if that last round was necessary if he already made up his mind. They could have just called me and told me I was not a good fit, instead of requesting me to go into the interview - I had to request time off to go in for the interview too.
Recruiter, the Sourcer, hiring manager and the other team members were really nice. Overall, took between 6-7 weeks from submission of resume through the last round. Too bad there's no match, I would have loved to work there since my friends love working there and it boasts a great culture of getting things done and nurturing talent. Plus I'm a big fan of their products.
Interview Question – Name as many uses for a brick as you can in one minute Answer Question
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Senior Applications Engineer at NVIDIA
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA Apr 2013 – Reviewed May 2, 2013
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The interview was good. The team and the manager were excellent to talk to.
questions were apt to the position and my work experience.
I cleared all the questions.
Interview Question – How do you lower via inductance. Answer Question
Reason for Declining – The interaction with the HR was very unpleasant. His unprofessional and uncouth behavior lead to my declining the offer. This doesn't appear to be in conformity with the stature and standard of nvidia.
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Linux Graphic Software Engineer at NVIDIA
No Offer – Interviewed in Feb 2013 – Reviewed Apr 29, 2013
Interview Details – I applied through their website. One week later a recruiter sent me an email about another position, which was wrong. I accept to do the interview which was not interesting for me. So I sent an email back to the recruiter saying that. He finally schedule an interview for the right position. It was a phone interview for about 45 min. The hiring manager asked me about my background and then he asked me a question about OpenGL implementation. He seemed to like my answer but they said I was not a good fit for the position, which I truly disagrees. I don't know if this was the real reason or what.
Interview Question – It was a specific OpenGL implementation under X Window System which I don't recall. Answer Question
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ASIC Verification Engineer at NVIDIA
No Offer – Reviewed Apr 27, 2013
Interview Details – just first round phone interview
Interview Question – what do u know about virtual pages Answer Question
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ASIC Design Intern at NVIDIA
No Offer – Interviewed in Los Angeles, CA Oct 2012 – Reviewed Apr 15, 2013
Interview Details – There was a basic screening at a university job fair where they had a hand written exam that consisted of delay analysis, and combinational logic design. Then there was a phone interview which consisted of a programming question, a logic design analysis question and a probability question. Did not receive an on-site interview
Interview Question – Compare the power usage of a regular versus a gray code counter. Answer Question
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Silicon Validation Engineer at NVIDIA
No Offer – Reviewed Apr 7, 2013
Interview Details – phone interview about 40 minutes.
Interview Question – Ask questions about factors that influence the threshold voltage of transistor. Answer Question
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DFT Intern at NVIDIA
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA Nov 2011 – Reviewed Apr 6, 2013
Interview Details – First telephonic round by Hiring Manager. Asked on resume and past internship experience. That was short only for 20 mins. Within a week got e-mail for 2 more telephonic rounds by 2 Senior DFT engineers. Asked questions on path delay test, transition test, verilog coding, boundary scan, lock-up latches, pos-edge and neg edge flops placement, timing issues with testing. Interview was for DFT and all questions asked were related to how comfortable I was using EDA tools for it. No questions on programming/comp arch.
Interview Question – Boundary scan questions on the instructions. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – None. Standard pay to all Interns
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